I mean yes that was practically the situation for the last 40 years here.
Late 70s the constitutional court said that government must enact a legal framework for name changes, that then happened in 1980. The court then over time went ahead and voided more paragraphs of that law than they left intact, here's a list. The socdems back then basically only did it because they had to, then came a long conservative government, the next socdem government did civil partnerships, then another long conservative government (with, surprisingly, gay marriage), and now another socdem government with the rest of the country having moved sufficiently forward for them to actually just do it.
It's Germany in a nutshell: Certain things take ages but once they're done they're actually done and only the fringes of the fringes of society are opposed. Opposition from the conservatives is mostly pro forma and details, opposition from fascists (i.e. AfD) is, as always, tactical/populist, the only actual opposition I'm seeing is from TERFs like Alice Schwarzer. Probably should be called an *ERF, TBH, it's almost easier to list whom she doesn't exclude.